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Hot Shots and Classic Takes
Willie Nelson and John Belushi. Photo by Stephanie Chernikowski / The Rag Blog
As Long As It Is Legal Tender
Boutique businesses for money launderingFrom Joe Bageant’s Blog. Joe, I have just read your essay Dead Man Shopping. Your writing simply dazzles. I wish you could enjoy the temperate climes of California. I wonder why certain writers, like Joan Didion … Continue reading
His Overwhelming Grace and Exasperated Wrath
God Damn America, Especially PennsylvaniaBy Greg Palast The kids were snoozing so I drove along the back roads skirting the Lackawanna River on a dawn hunt for black coffee and a newspaper. I think even Norman Rockwell would have found … Continue reading
Stay the Same – Get Left Behind
Blogger Michael Lewis. “Getting Free”From Michael Lewis’ Hayduke Blogs. I’m reading a book, by James Herod, called Getting Free: Creating an Association of Democratic Autonomous Neighborhoods. You can read it, and others online, download a .pdf copy or send the … Continue reading
Raging Grannies Mourn the Dead in Iraq
Raging Grannies mourn at midnight in Palo Alto, California, on March 21, 2008. Members of the Raging Grannies Action League were mourning the loss of life and limb in the Iraqi War. Photo by Pam Walton who is producing a … Continue reading
Forcing the Candidates to Get Serious About Ending the Wars
Anti-war Campaigners Have To Change Electoral TacticsBy Naomi Klein and Jeremy Scahill Neither Clinton nor Obama has a real plan to end the occupation of Iraq, but they could be forced to change position 25/03/08 “The Guardian” — — ‘So?” … Continue reading
Progressives for Obama
This call has been drafted for immediate circulation, discussion, and action.by Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher, Jr., Barbara Ehrenreich, and Danny Glover All American progressives should unite for Barack Obama. We descend from the proud tradition of independent social movements that … Continue reading
Moon over Miami : Spyin’ on My Love and Me…
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), aka Spy in the Sky. He SEES you when you’re sleeping. He KNOWS when you’re awake. He KNOWS if you’ve been bad or good. So be good for goodness sake… Spy-in-the-sky drone sets sights on MiamiBy … Continue reading
"Four Pinocchios" for Hillary
Why Is Hillary Clinton Lying?By Robert Parry / March 26, 2008 Two weeks ago, I wrote a story that observed a disturbing trend in Hillary Clinton’s campaign – her growing tendency to stretch the truth, twist what her chief rival … Continue reading
Seeking to Terrify the World into Submission
Elaine Brower Winter Soldier 2008: A Marine Mom’s Eyewitness Account of the Testimonyby Elaine Brower I. I have spent the past seven-plus years as an activist against the policies of George W. Bush and his regime. Already, my son has … Continue reading
Truth Without Angelizing: These Colours Don’t Run
When America Can’t Handle the Truthby Pierre Tristam The word, attributed to the late writer Saul Bellow, is “angelization” — willfully putting someone beyond blame. Angelizing America is the common tongue of all national politicians, the oath candidates implicitly take … Continue reading
